John Facenda quotes

John Facenda quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.”
-- John Facenda

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“It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun,”
-- John Facenda

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“Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.”
-- John Facenda

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“Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.”
-- John Facenda

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“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”
“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”
“We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”
“Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.”
“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
“I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.”

Source : "Adrian Peterson Credits His Parents' Tough Discipline for His Success" by Meghan Keneally, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2014.
“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”
“People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.”
“I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.”
“Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.”

Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

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